MISSION NEWS AS OF WEDNESDAY 4 APRIL 2018

+ GAIA'S VIEW OF DARK INTERSTELLAR CLOUDS
While charting the positions of more than a billion stars, ESA's Gaia mission provides all-important information even about the dark patches of the sky where fewer stars are observed. These images, based on Gaia's first data release, are an appetizer to the astronomical riches that will be unleashed with the mission's second release on 25 April.
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+ HUBBLE USES COSMIC LENS TO DISCOVER MOST DISTANT STAR EVER OBSERVED [HEIC1807]
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found the most distant star ever discovered. The hot blue star existed only 4.4 billion years after the Big Bang. This discovery provides new insight into the formation and evolution of stars in the early Universe, the constituents of galaxy clusters and also on the nature of dark matter.
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+ WINNING EXOPLANET ROCKET STICKER SELECTED
A colourful design capturing the essence of ESA's CHEOPS mission, which will measure the size of planets as they cross in front of their parent stars, has been selected for the rocket carrying the satellite into space.
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